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Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index b3e03c5464..5ff741a4af 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -3974,7 +3974,7 @@ property must be set. These objects are placed in the @table @option -@item -object memory-backend-file,id=@var{id},size=@var{size},mem-path=@var{dir},share=@var{on|off},discard-data=@var{on|off},merge=@var{on|off},dump=@var{on|off},prealloc=@var{on|off},host-nodes=@var{host-nodes},policy=@var{default|preferred|bind|interleave} +@item -object memory-backend-file,id=@var{id},size=@var{size},mem-path=@var{dir},share=@var{on|off},discard-data=@var{on|off},merge=@var{on|off},dump=@var{on|off},prealloc=@var{on|off},host-nodes=@var{host-nodes},policy=@var{default|preferred|bind|interleave},align=@var{align} Creates a memory file backend object, which can be used to back the guest RAM with huge pages. @@ -4027,6 +4027,13 @@ restrict memory allocation to the given host node list interleave memory allocations across the given host node list @end table +The @option{align} option specifies the base address alignment when +QEMU mmap(2) @option{mem-path}, and accepts common suffixes, eg +@option{2M}. Some backend store specified by @option{mem-path} +requires an alignment different than the default one used by QEMU, eg +the device DAX /dev/dax0.0 requires 2M alignment rather than 4K. In +such cases, users can specify the required alignment via this option. + @item -object memory-backend-ram,id=@var{id},merge=@var{on|off},dump=@var{on|off},prealloc=@var{on|off},size=@var{size},host-nodes=@var{host-nodes},policy=@var{default|preferred|bind|interleave} Creates a memory backend object, which can be used to back the guest RAM. |